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Record Nr.

UNISA996385361003316

Autore

Cotgrave John <fl. 1655.>

Titolo

Wits interpreter, the English Parnassus, or, The sure guide to those admirable accomplishments that compleat our English gentry, in the most acceptable qualifications of discourse or writing [[electronic resource] ] : in which briefly the whole mystery of those pleasing witchcrafts of eloquence and love, are made easie in the following subjects, viz. 1. Theatre of courtship, accurate complements, 2. The labyrinth of fancies, new experiments and inventions, 3. Apollo and Orpheus, several love-songs, epigrams, drolleries and other verses, 4. Cyprian goddess, description of beauty, 5. The muses elizium, several poetical fictions, 6. The perfect inditer, letters ala mode, 7. Cardinal Richelieu's key to his manner of writing of letters by cyphers, 8. Games and sports now used at this day among the gentry of England, &c. : as also an alphabetical table of the first devisers of sciences and other curiosities ... / / by I.C

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed for N. Brook ..., 1662

Edizione

[The 2d edition, with many new additions.]

Descrizione fisica

[15], 496, [15] p

Soggetti

Courtship

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Attributed to John Cotgrave. Cf. Halkett & Laing (2nd ed.).

Added t.p., engraved: Witts interpreter, or, The new Parnassus.

Advertisement: p. 496-[15] at end.

Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0113